Crime Statistics for Rushenden, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rushenden in August 2024. There were a total of 30 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Violent Crime	6
Other Theft	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	30

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Rushenden. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Rushenden

We've taken the ten nearest places to Rushenden and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Rushenden has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Marine Town (2.24 miles)	268
Sheerness (2.56 miles)	211
Mile Town (1.96 miles)	201
Blue Town (2.56 miles)	178
Kemsley (3.11 miles)	145
Minster-in-Sheppey (3.34 miles)	120
Isle of Sheppey (3 miles)	86
Halfway Houses (2.24 miles)	61
Rushenden	30
Iwade (2.56 miles)	20

Where are the most violent places near Rushenden?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Rushenden and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Marine Town	118
Sheerness	87
Blue Town	83
Mile Town	80
Kemsley	45
Minster-in-Sheppey	40
Isle of Sheppey	26
Halfway Houses	24
Iwade	11
Rushenden	6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Rushenden?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Rushenden to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Rushenden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rushenden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rushenden is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sheerness	90
2	Sheppey East	88
3	Milton Regis	80
4	Murston	75
5	Sheppey Central	69
6	Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow	62
7	Kemsley	62
8	Minster Cliffs	59
9	Queenborough and Halfway	57
10	Peninsula	52

Which road in Rushenden has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Rushenden with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.